Eva Horn (PhD, Political Theory, University of Konstanz; habilitation, Social and Cultural Sciences, Europa-Universitat Viadrina) is Professor of German and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna and Distinguished Visiting Max Kade Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages at Columbia. She is the author of (in English translation) The Secret War: Treason, Espionage, and Modern Fiction (Northwestern, 2013) and (in German) Trauer schreiben: Die Toten im Text der Goethezeit (Fink, 1998).